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Stedman doubles... [message #14873]

Wed, 15 April 2009 19:31

jmeadows
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Stedman doubles...

Smooshes!

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Wed, 15 April 2009 19:45

jmeadows
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Oh Darkness, what a sense of humor.

So what did the physio say? If he's peeing on strange walls, surely he can't be too bad off. (Or am I underestimating a dog's feelings on a good pee?)

I'm glad you went to ring. Sounds like it *was* good for morale. I'm eating chocolate bunnies hoping you feel better very soon! (Is it working yet? I'll eat bunnies until you tell me to stop.)

Smooshes!

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Wed, 15 April 2009 19:53

Robin
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I think he was demonstrating his new extra-flexy backbone. :)

No, no, keep eating chocolate bunnies. I can feel the benefits beginning to sink in. . . .

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Re: Stedman doubles... [message #14882 is a reply to message #14876 ]

Wed, 15 April 2009 19:55

b_twin_1
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jmeadows wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 19:45

So what did the physio say? If he's peeing on strange walls, surely he can't be too bad off. (Or am I underestimating a dog's feelings on a good pee?)

Hopefully it indicates that whatever the physio was doing has been a success in terms of balancing him out. Very Happy

A good pee after bodywork is always a good sign (for horses, sheep, dogs... people.... hehe)

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:02

southdowner
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‡‡ Have you ever tried finding your way in a panic? The landscape is a strange, shifting grey, the wind keens bad words in your ears, and the roads move around. The worst of it is you never know when you may blunder into one. Panics are everywhere, like swamps and motocross tracks.
Panics hang on long bell ropes like pythons, waiting for me to appear, but vanish when other, competent ringers lay hands on the ropes. I have been utterly unable to manage the simplest of call changes when in the grip of panic, so YaaaaY! on finding your way successfully through your panic Smile

‡‡‡ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Journey
Sheila Burnford's book was about a bullie and reading it makes me realise how well she knew and loved the breed - silly, loyal, tenacious and comic, she does them justice.

§ Except for the fact that Genuine Dog Professionals make me feel faulty and inadequate.^ Oh gods, what am I doing wrong? I know I’m doing it wrong. But I’m faulty. And inadequate.

^ Southdowner, I’m talking to you.
I keep telling you, the hellhounds are very happy characters, and in view of their complex personalities I think that you are doing an excellent job of pandering to their needs LOL

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:02

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. . . And sat for fifteen minutes in a traffic jam. £$%^&*”}~#[+!!!!!!!
I hope you didn't waste that good plot-making time..... Razz

So we took off cross country, always a mistake
especially in the UK and Europe.... *shudders*

only this time it worked.
!! Way to go McKinley!

And have you ever tried to carry 1,000,000,000 four-foot bamboo stakes?
Yes. Your description was particularly apt. (Add a steep slope and some canine leg-entwining and you have even more fun)

wondering faintly if I should try to go ringing tonight. The answer was clearly no. ... I went anyway.
...... Neutral

I suspect you have a serious case of Bell Ringer-itis. There is no hope for you.....

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:03

Robin
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At least he didn't have DIARRHEA this time. At least not yet. . . .

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:03

southdowner
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b_twin_1 wrote on Thu, 16 April 2009 00:55

jmeadows wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 19:45

So what did the physio say? If he's peeing on strange walls, surely he can't be too bad off. (Or am I underestimating a dog's feelings on a good pee?)

Hopefully it indicates that whatever the physio was doing has been a success in terms of balancing him out. Very Happy

A good pee after bodywork is always a good sign (for horses, sheep, dogs... people.... hehe)

Yes!!!

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:04

b_twin_1
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I did say pee. But now you mention it..... Wink

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Wed, 15 April 2009 20:05

Robin
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Yes, I'd forgotten one of them was a bullie till I was looking it up for the addy (one never knows if Subsequent Generations will know the things we grew up with :)).

Oooh. I get PANDERER status??? I'm so PROUD. :)

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Re: Stedman doubles... [message #14891 is a reply to message #14873 ]

Wed, 15 April 2009 20:22

Erika in Colorado
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Robin, I really feel for you in having to find your way on the spot. I also have this problem! It doesn't help that my city has all kinds of streets that go all across town, but dead end for a block or two and then continue. I also seem to be able to find my way in the forest/woods without a map fairly easily, but the city streets leave me like a deer in headlights (pun intended Wink

Erika in Colorado

"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!" -Anne Frank

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Re: Stedman doubles... [message #14899 is a reply to message #14873 ]

Thu, 16 April 2009 03:13

Diane in MN
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The prostration is mine, not Darkness’. Darkness is back to being lifted into the car and lifted onto the sofa. Darkness is prostrate like a prince in a palanquin is prostrate. I am recumbent as a weary slave falls down chained to her oar.

I have a fridge magnet that says "This house is run for the comfort and convenience of the dog." You think you should have one, too?

It took us three tries, but I wasn’t the only one coming adrift. And we did it at last. Sometimes it’s a good thing to make the wrong choice and go do something anyway.

Bravo all!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: Stedman doubles... [message #14908 is a reply to message #14873 ]

Thu, 16 April 2009 14:01

Mrs Redboots
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Oh dear, I roared at poor Darkness! I suppose previous clients had Expressed their Opinion of the physio in the exact same spot on that wall before, so he thought it was all right....

Glad you found you could manage Stedman after all - I think you're as hooked on ringing as I am on skating, and I'm really glad you had a better ring yesterday than I had skate!

Mrs Redboots
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Thu, 16 April 2009 16:01

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Quote:

and was lying on the sofa with accompanying hellhounds, leafing idly through the Taylors clematis catalogue

Clematis, yes. There's a most beautiful Armandii just by the archway where I go through to our offices and it's in full bloom at the moment. The perfume is just wonderful. But all the descriptions of it emphasise just how big it can grow - should I insert one into our garden, I wonder... Smile

I did get a replacement C. Frances Rivis last week, from here. It's now looking very happy in a nice 'cool feet, warm head' spot.

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Stedman doubles... [message #14911 is a reply to message #14873 ]

Thu, 16 April 2009 16:02

Catlady
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My next dog is going to be a goldfish.

I think you should make that into a bumper sticker. Or a plaque on the wall. Along with "It's not who you know, it's whom you know," which is one of my favorite bumper stickers.

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Thu, 16 April 2009 20:23

Robin
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LOL! We need one that says *DOGS*!! Someone ring up the magnet company! :)

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Thu, 16 April 2009 20:27

Robin
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I recommend *against* armandii unless you have a big *enough* garden that you can tuck it away somewhere that you don't have to look at it the rest of the year when it's NOT flowering. Yes, the flowers are gorgeous and deliciously smelly, and it's true it gets big but IMO it's not the size that's the problem, it's that the leaves are UGLY and get A LOT UGLIER over the rest of the year. My predecessor had one here and I yanked the freller out after two years. Couldn't stand having one quarter of my entire garden looking tatty as a . . . ahem . . . well, the metaphor that came to me had to do with the underclothing of a ceertain kind of professional. . . .

Don't know Potted Garden. You recommend them, do you? Hmmmmmmmmm. . . .

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Thu, 16 April 2009 20:29

Robin
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LOL!!!!!! Yesssss!!!

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